"Dragon Quest was a pioneering title," says 1 & 2 HD-2D remake producer Masaaki Hayasaka in a new blog posted to the PlayStation website, and everything that is old eventually becomes new again. So, in a way, it's great luck that Dragon Quest's retro, turn-based JRPG style has nearly disappeared from fashion.
"Recently, a lot of RPGs have adopted more action gameplay elements, but this remake respects the original," Hayasaka says in the PlayStation blog discussing some of the details behind Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake ahead of its October 30 launch, 39 years after the first game's initial release. "This remake respects the original, and it's presented in a classic command-battle RPG style."
"As I mentioned previously, these games have influenced a huge number of JRPGs – it isn't really possible to talk about JRPGs without mentioning them – so I believe that people are going to find them really interesting to play, precisely because of when they're coming out."
Really, it seems like great timing for Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake to release in the same year as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which has done a great job at leading gamers back to turn-based games like pigeons stalking a loaf of bread – though Expedition 33's creative director Guillaume Broche recently said that he thinks the Xbox 360-era "prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn't completely gone."
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